Lamentations 4:6

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Summary

For the punishment of the iniquity of the daughter of my people is greater than the punishment of the sin of Sodom, that was overthrown as in a moment, and no hands stayed on her.

Punishment of the iniquity of the daughter

Luke 12:47

The punishment

Bible References

Punishment of the iniquity of the daughter

And except the LORD of Hosts had left us a few alive, we should have been as Sodom, and like unto Gomorrah.

As truly as I live, sayeth the LORD God, Sodom thy sister with her daughters hath not done so evil as thou and thy daughters.

And thou, Capernaum, which art lift up unto heaven, shalt be brought down to hell: for if the miracles, which have been done in thee, had been showed in Sodom, they had remained to this day.

Yea and I say unto you: that it shall be easier in that day, for Sodom than for that city.

The servant that knew his master's will, and prepared not himself, neither did according to his will, shall be beaten with many stripes.

The punishment

{Tet} They that be slain with the sword, are happier than such as die of hunger, and perish away famishing for the fruits of the field.

and overthrew those cities and all the region, and all that dwelled in the cities, and that that grew upon the earth.

And he hath performed his words, which he spake against us, and against our judges that judged us: to bring upon us such a great plague, as never was under heaven, like as it is now come to pass in Jerusalem.

For then shall be great tribulation, such as was not from the beginning of the world to this time, nor shall be.